Birds. 1063 



Mountain Linnet or Twite, Linota montium. Frequents, occasion- 

 ally with the other species of linnet in the winter, and flight-season, 

 the more upland districts of Cleveland. Its usual note is monosylla- 

 bic, and like tweet, tweet, tweet. In this vicinity, however, it is a 

 rare bird. 



Goldfinch, Goldspink, Carduelis elegans. This very beautiful and 

 elegantly shaped bird, and good songster, is by no means abundant 

 here. It may be sometimes seen frequenting the more barren spots, 

 and picking seeds from thistles and other syngenesious plants. 



Siskin, Carduelis spinus. A migratory and winter species . I have 

 noticed a few in different years, resting on alder-trees (Alnus glutino- 

 sa), in company with the lesser redpoll, in the low grounds near Nor- 

 ton. I killed one there, which I preserved. I am unacquainted with 

 its song. 



Common Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra. In the winter of 1835-6, 

 another flock of crossbills was seen near Stockton, out of which seve- 

 ral good specimens, of both sexes, were shot. The very singular for- 

 mation of the bill, aided by its powerful muscles, is admirably adapted 

 to the opening and breaking of the woody cones of the different spe- 

 cies of Pinus, on the seeds inclosed in which the bird chiefly subsists. 



Bullfinch, Pyrrlmla vulgaris. 



Hawfinch, Grosbeak, Coccothraustes vulgaris. Here a rare visitor. 

 A flock was observed at Ormesby, in Cleveland, near Stockton, a few 

 years ago, from which two individuals were shot. Another is record- 

 ed by Mr. Selby (Cat. 266, No. 100) to have been killed at Streatham, 

 in the west of the county of Durham. Mr. Yarrell has therefore com- 

 mitted an oversight at p. 487, vol. i., where he states that this bird is 

 not included in that Catalogue. But as the Catalogue has added no 

 Latin specific name, I have preferred to give the appellation grandi- 

 rostris — huge bill — grosbec — to this species, because of its large 

 and powerful beak, an instrument, indeed, sufficiently strong to crack 

 the hardest nuts, and stones of fruit. Its geographical range in Eu- 

 rope, extends from the north of Sweden to the south of Italy. 



Greenfinch, Green Grosbeak, Coccothraustes chloris. John Hogg. 



(To be continued). 



Note on the arrival of Birds at Pilling, Lancashire, in 1845. 



The Swallow April 9 Sedge-warbler April 30 



Ray's Wagtail 10 Pied Flycatcher May 1 



Wheatear 11 Common White throat 5 



Willow-warbler 16 Common Sandpiper 5 



Cuckoo 21 Common Quail June 1 



Whinchat 26 



